Calls for a public vote on renaming Shannon Bridge

Saturday 1 March 2014

Calls are being made for the public to decide on the name of the Shannon Bridge.

A motion put forward for the next council meeting and signed by councillors Diarmuid Scully, Jim Long and Denis McCarthy requests a public vote on the name of the bridge, to be held on the same day as the Local and European Elections in May.

A row is continuing to rumble between councillors, following a behind-closed doors Protocol Meeting earlier this week, when a proposal to name the bridge after assassinated US President John F Kennedy was passed by just one vote, with four councillors absent.